[Vm-dev] VMMaker small problem for pharo developper

[Levente Uzonyi]

On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Henrik Johansen wrote:

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> On Mar 19, 2010, at 1:18 17PM, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
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>> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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>>> On 19.03.2010, at 10:44, Henrik Johansen wrote:
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>>>> the method will probably be renamed again in Pharo, to #primFindSubstring:in:startingAt:matchTable:
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>>> I see no compelling reason why we shouldn't just apply the same refactoring to Squeak? KISS ;)
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>> What about changing the primitive to fail if the String is "Wide", or make it work with WideStrings?
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>> Levente
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> Sure, it's an orthagonal issue though.
> You'd still need the guards in case an old VM is used, and have to skip those if the image the VM was built with included the primitive code which works correctly.
> IE. it'd be a real mess, and you'd definately want to have to do it in only one place.

I'd call it parallel, not orthogonal. If the primitive is fixed, then in 
Squeak 4.2/Pharo 1.2/etc we can remove the checks/hacks in the image and 
assume that the issue is handled correctly by the vm.


Levente

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> Cheers,
> Henry
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